Famous quotes containing the words inventions and/or british:

“I shall not bring an automobile with me. These inventions infest France almost as much as Bloomer cycling costumes, but they make a horrid racket, and are particularly objectionable. So are the Bloomers. Nothing more abominable has ever been invented. Perhaps the automobile tricycles may succeed better, but I abjure all these works of the devil.”—Henry Brooks Adams (18381918)

“History is made in the class struggle and not in bed.”—Alex Mitchell, British left-wing journalist. quoted in Sunday Times (London, 29 Dec. 1985)